koreanfestivals1-5, Exercise 2: Daeboreum customs and the moon house

Model answer (any three):

- Bureom: cracking nuts with the teeth, believed to keep teeth healthy for the year.
- Dalmaji: climbing hills to see the first moonrise; the first person to see it will have good luck all year or a wish granted.
- Daribalgi: walking on bridges all night; stepping on twelve bridges is believed to keep one healthy through twelve months.
- Deowipalgi: saying "Buy my heat" to someone first in the morning, to escape summer heat.
- Jwibulnori: burning dry grass on rice-field ridges the night before, said to fertilise the fields and kill harmful worms.

The "moon house" (burning a house of firewood and branches to ward off evil spirits, placed within Seollal by the Seollal article) is unresolved because the Daeboreum article does not list it by that name. It lists burning dry grass (jwibulnori) and a straw fire against mosquitos (mogitbul), and we cannot tell whether these are the same custom under different names. A specialist source on fire customs would settle it.

Sources: Wikipedia, Daeboreum; Korean New Year.